What Makes a Man Start Fires?
by Minutemen
- Type: Album
- Released: January 1983
- Label: SST
- Country: United States
- Length: 26:56
- Community rating: 3.97/5 from 9 ratings
Artists on this release: Mike Watt, D. Boon, George Hurley
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On their incredibly tight sophomore album, the Minutemen perfect their hyper-condensed, wildly eclectic brand of funk-infused post-hardcore. The trio blasts through brief, highly rhythmic songs utilizing uncommon time signatures and D. Boon's biting, sarcastic political punk poetry. 'What Makes a Man Start Fires?' is a deeply playful, fiercely energetic, and structurally brilliant milestone of American art punk.
Genres
Descriptors: rhythmic, uncommon-time-signatures, protest, political, funky, jam, DIY, eccentric, guitars, punchy
Tracklist
- Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs (1:29)
- One Chapter in the Book (1:02)
- Fake Contest (1:43)
- Beacon Sighted Through Fog (1:00)
- Mutiny in Jonestown (1:08)
- East Wind / Faith (2:08)
- Pure Joy (1:29)
- 99 (1:00)
- The Anchor (2:34)
- Sell or Be Sold (1:44)
- The Only Minority (1:00)
- Split Red (0:53)
- Colors (2:05)
- Plight (1:37)
- The Tin Roof (1:08)
- Life as a Rehearsal (1:34)
- This Road (1:24)
- Polarity (1:48)
Credits
- Minutemen - primary artist
- Mike Watt - bass, vocals, written-by, vocal
- George Hurley - drums, written-by, membranophone
- Spot - engineer, producer, mixed by, mix, recording
- D. Boon - guitar, lead vocals, illustration [back cover drawing], written-by, guitar family, lead vocals vocal
- Gary Jacobelly - illustration [back cover drawing]
- Raymond Pettibon - illustration [drawing on front cover]
- Ray Dylan - illustration [side b label]
- Joe Baiza - guitar [added]